Barrel.



G. N. JOHNSON.

BARREL.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT.

Patented Sept, '7, 1909.

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CHARLES NEWTON JOHNSON, OF VINCENNES, INDIANA, ASSIGNOR F ONE-FOURTH TO OSCAR E. HOLLOWELL, OF VINCENNES, INDIANA, AND ONE-FQURTH TO JAMES V E. INSKEEP, OF MOUNT CARMEL, ILLINOIS.

BARREL.

933,307. Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 7, 1909.

Application filed September 9, 1907. Serial No. 392,040.

T 0 all whom it may concern: screwed into engagement with the threaded Be it known that I, CHARLES NEWTON flange, 4, of the body portion. in the re- 55 Jonnson, a citizen of the United States, recess, 7, is arranged a packing ring, or washer, siding at Vincennes, in the county of Knox 8, against which is adapted to be screwed and State of Indiana, have invented certain the upper edge of the flange, i, thereby formnew and useful Improvements in Barrels; ing a fluid-tight connection between the body and I do declare the following to be a full, portion and the upper end of the barrel. 60

clear, and exact description of the invention, The opposite end of the closing portion, 6,

such as will enable others skilled in the art is provided with an integrally formed head,

to which it appertains to make and use the 9, which is countersunk below the upper same. edges of the portion, 6, thereby providing This invention relates to improvements in an outwardly projecting annular flange, 10, 65 barrels, kegs, casks, and the like. on the inner side of which are formed pairs The object of the invention is to provide of lugs, 12, said pairs of lugs being arranged a container of this character formed of suitat diametrically opposite points and are proable metal having an enameled inner survided for the reception of a bar, 13, shown face, whereby the contents of the same will in dotted lines in Fig. 3 of the drawing, 7 be prevented from absorbing impurities or and adapted to serve as a means for assistotherwise being contaminated, which he ing in unscrewing the closing section or end quently occurs in certain kinds of liquids of the barrel from the body portion.

when kept in wooden barrels. At a suitable position in the side of the A further object is to provide a barrel of barrel is formed a bung hole, 14:, adapted to 75 this character, one end of which is made receive a bung or a faucet. Over the bung separately from the body portion of the barhole 14 is arranged a clamping plate 15, be

rel, and is provided with means for forming tween which and the edges of the hole is ara fluid-tight engagement therewith. ranged a suitable packing ring, 16, whereby With these objects in view, the invention a fluid-tight joint is provided between the 80 consists of certain novel features of construcedges of the hole and the bung or faucet tion, combination and arrangement of parts driven therein. If desired, a similarly as will be more fully described and particuformed bung hole may be provided in the larly pointed out in the appended claim. head 9 of the removable end of the barrel,

In the accompanying drawing, Figure 1 said bung hole being covered by an aperis a side view of a barrel constructed in actured clamping plate, 17, between which and cordance with the invention; Fig. 2 is a verthe edges of the hole, is clamped a suitable 35 tical sectional view of the same; and Fig. 3 packing ring, 18, to form a fluid-tight enis a plan view of one end of the barrel. gagement between the edges of the hole and Referring more particularly to the drawthe bung driven therein. ings, 1 denotes the barrel, which may be of Over the entire inner surface of the body any suitable size or shape, and which conporti 2 d l i portion or upper end,

0 sists of a main or body portion, 2, which is 6, is arranged a lining, 19, of enamel or open at its upper end and is closed at the similar material, by means of which the conopposite end by a head, 3, which is prefer tents of the ba rel are prevented from being ably formed integral with the sides of the contaminated by contact with the mater al body portion, as shown. The opposite open of which the barrel is formed, thus provid 5 end of the body portion, 2, is constructed to ing for the packing of liquids which are imform an inner annular forwardly projecting paired when packed in barrels of the usual flange, l, which is provided with exterior construction. screw-threads, 5, and is adapted to receive Having thus fully described my invention, the upper end or closing portion, 6, of the what I claim as new and desire to secure by 5 barrel. Letters-Patent, is:

The engaging side of the upper end 6 is As a means to connect and disconnect barformed on its inner side with an annular rel sections, and in combination with a chime threaded recess, 7, which is adapted to be I on one section, of diametrically opposite engage between the pairs of lugs to turn.

pairs of spaced lugs integral with the chime In'testiniony whereof I have hereunto set and projecting inwardly toward each other, my hand in presence of two subscribing witand an operating bar adapted to removably nesses.

3 CHARLES NEWTON JOHNSON. said sectlon, sald lugs and bar havlng a Wltnessesz height no greater than the height of the J. P. HOUGHTON,

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